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Pezuela buys its independence

Pezuela de las Torres, Cuenca del Henares, Madrid

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Pezuela buys its independence

Historical milestone · Pezuela de las Torres, Cuenca del Henares, Madrid

Image of Pezuela de las Torres, not of the place itself.

The council paid Carlos I one million four hundred and seventeen thousand maravedís for the title of villa and raised its pillory as a symbol of its own jurisdiction. In 1642 the Genoese banker Bartolomeo Spínola added «de las Torres» to the name.

1554

Photo: Dirección General de Turismo. Consejería de Economía e Innovación Tecnológica. Comunidad de Madrid. (CC BY 3.0 es)

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